Patents by Inventor Shinei Mochizuki

Shinei Mochizuki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9174683
    Abstract: The invention includes a floor reinforcement structure for vehicle body providing rigidity to an area around a main and rear floor joint; improving vehicle-body rigidity and rigidity against floor shaking and associated vehicle interior noise; and improving vehicle running stability. A floor reinforcement structure includes: a main floor; rear floor; side sill; a floor tunnel with a hat-like cross-section protruding from the floor and located medially in the main floor in the vehicle width direction and extending in a front-and-rear direction; and a vertical wall at the front of the rear floor extending in a vehicle vertical direction. The vertical wall is continuous with no steps The height of a top face thereof is larger than twice the height of a top face of the side sill, which is more than twice the height of a top face of a rear end portion of the floor tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Shinei Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8991905
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear floor structure characterized as follows is provided. The front end of a rear floor panel in a vehicle longitudinal direction includes a front wall extending between a pair of side sills. The front wall forms an arc whose central part in a vehicle width direction projects upward from the floor. The front wall lower end is joined to a rear end of a main floor panel. A cross member forms an arc whose central part in the vehicle width direction projects upward from the floor, and extends along the front wall with the central part of the cross member in the vehicle width direction placed on a floor tunnel. The cross member ends, in the vehicle width direction, are joined to the side sills and main floor panel. The cross member central part in the vehicle width direction is joined to the floor tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Shinei Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8967702
    Abstract: Structure of a vehicle body rear part in which a back door opening section around which a closed cross-sectional structure is provided wherein the vehicle body rear part includes rear lamp house panels, a back panel section and a back door opening section arranged to incline obliquely such that a lower part is located further toward a vehicle back than an upper part. In the structure, a tail end member extending along a vehicle width direction is coupled to lower side corner portions of the closed cross-sectional structure located on both the left and right sides of the back door opening section, swelling sections extending further outward than the lower side corner portions of the closed cross-sectional structure are provided on both the left and right sides of the tail end member, and the swelling sections are joined to the rear lamp house panels and the back panel section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shinei Mochizuki, Koji Oishi
  • Patent number: 8870270
    Abstract: Structure for lower vehicle body of vehicle front part is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, structure includes suspension frame fastened to connection parts of front side members and floor side members; dash side members extend from fastening parts obliquely rearward and outward in vehicle width direction; outer end parts of dash side members connected to front end parts of side sills; front surfaces of lower parts of side outer panels arranged ahead of front end parts of side sills; dash side outer panels, side outer panels, and dash side inner panels connected together by flanges extending in vehicle up-down direction of front end part of each thereof, at positions of front surfaces of lower parts of side outer panels, side outer panels formed into an inclined surface inclined obliquely downward toward vehicle rear in side view and inclined obliquely rearward toward outside of vehicle in top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Shinei Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20140232141
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear floor structure characterized as follows is provided. The front end of a rear floor panel in a vehicle longitudinal direction includes a front wall extending between a pair of side sills. The front wall forms an arc whose central part in a vehicle width direction projects upward from the floor. The front wall lower end is joined to a rear end of a main floor panel. A cross member forms an arc whose central part in the vehicle width direction projects upward from the floor, and extends along the front wall with the central part of the cross member in the vehicle width direction placed on a floor tunnel. The cross member ends, in the vehicle width direction, are joined to the side sills and main floor panel. The cross member central part in the vehicle width direction is joined to the floor tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinei Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20140225396
    Abstract: Structure for lower vehicle body of vehicle front part is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, structure includes suspension frame fastened to connection parts of front side members and floor side members; dash side members extend from fastening parts obliquely rearward and outward in vehicle width direction; outer end parts of dash side members connected to front end parts of side sills; front surfaces of lower parts of side outer panels arranged ahead of front end parts of side sills; dash side outer panels, side outer panels, and dash side inner panels connected together by flanges extending in vehicle up-down direction of front end part of each thereof, at positions of front surfaces of lower parts of side outer panels, side outer panels formed into an inclined surface inclined obliquely downward toward vehicle rear in side view and inclined obliquely rearward toward outside of vehicle in top view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinei Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20140203595
    Abstract: The invention includes a floor reinforcement structure for vehicle body providing rigidity to an area around a main and rear floor joint; improving vehicle-body rigidity and rigidity against floor shaking and associated vehicle interior noise; and improving vehicle running stability. A floor reinforcement structure includes: a main floor; rear floor; side sill; a floor tunnel with a hat-like cross-section protruding from the floor and located medially in the main floor in the vehicle width direction and extending in a front-and-rear direction; and a vertical wall at the front of the rear floor extending in a vehicle vertical direction. The vertical wall is continuous with no steps The height of a top face thereof is larger than twice the height of a top face of the side sill, which is more than twice the height of a top face of a rear end portion of the floor tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinei Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20140028058
    Abstract: Structure of a vehicle body rear part in which a back door opening section around which a closed cross-sectional structure is provided wherein the vehicle body rear part includes rear lamp house panels, a back panel section and a back door opening section arranged to incline obliquely such that a lower part is located further toward a vehicle back than an upper part. In the structure, a tail end member extending along a vehicle width direction is coupled to lower side corner portions of the closed cross-sectional structure located on both the left and right sides of the back door opening section, swelling sections extending further outward than the lower side corner portions of the closed cross-sectional structure are provided on both the left and right sides of the tail end member, and the swelling sections are joined to the rear lamp house panels and the back panel section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinei Mochizuki, Koji Oishi
  • Patent number: 8342599
    Abstract: A steering support member has a steering support member 1 configured by two support members arranged in parallel; a first support member 9 arranged throughout the entire vehicle width, and a second support member 10 arranged in a zone corresponding to the front position on the driver's seat side; the first and second support members 9 and 10 are connected with a steering bracket 11; the vehicle body side end portion of the second support member 10 attached to the vehicle body via an end connecting bracket 8 together with the first support member 9, and the vehicle body opposite side end portion of the second support member 10 attached to the first support member 9 via an intermediate connecting bracket 12; and the intermediate connecting bracket 12 connected to a floor panel 5 via a first brace 13 and connected to a cowl panel 2 via a second brace 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Atsumi, Shinei Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8141903
    Abstract: There is provided a reinforcing structure for a steering support member, which is made up of a pipe part, and is set across in the vehicle width direction. In this reinforcing structure, a pin part is penetratingly arranged along the vehicle longitudinal direction in a location in which a steering bracket of the steering support member is fixed, and the end portions of the pin part are fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the pipe part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Atsumi, Shinei Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20120049574
    Abstract: A steering support member has a steering support member 1 configured by two support members arranged in parallel; a first support member 9 arranged throughout the entire vehicle width, and a second support member 10 arranged in a zone corresponding to the front position on the driver's seat side; the first and second support members 9 and 10 are connected with a steering bracket 11; the vehicle body side end portion of the second support member 10 attached to the vehicle body via an end connecting bracket 8 together with the first support member 9, and the vehicle body opposite side end portion of the second support member 10 attached to the first support member 9 via an intermediate connecting bracket 12; and the intermediate connecting bracket 12 connected to a floor panel 5 via a first brace 13 and connected to a cowl panel 2 via a second brace 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Atsumi, Shinei Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20100090451
    Abstract: There is provided a reinforcing structure for a steering support member, which is made up of a pipe part, and is set across in the vehicle width direction. In this reinforcing structure, a pin part is penetratingly arranged along the vehicle longitudinal direction in a location in which a steering bracket of the steering support member is fixed, and the end portions of the pin part are fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the pipe part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Atsumi, Shinei Mochizuki